There was a post by
NCGAIO here that raised a few questions and reminded me of others regarding categories on the Wiki. This is my response to that post (here to keep the other thread on topic).
First, the
MTS2 category is, as that category page explains, merely to keep track of those pages, specifically for anyone who is trying to find these documents for whatever reason. It is not meant to be the way the average user finds these pages (though it does work for that too).
Every page tagged with that category
should also have a second category that is meant for organizational purposes, such as
Modding,
File Formats/xxx,
Savegame/subfiles, etc. These in turn have parent categories as needed, eventually reaching the main parent category of
Customizing the Game. In theory, someone who landed on the Main Page looking for articles about customizing the game, would find that category and then be able to work their way to the pages they needed. You can also use the search feature to do the same. This brings up something I noticed, but forgot about, which is that when I created the Customizing the Game category, I didn't put a link to it on the main page because that page is protected for admins only. So,
Wiki Admins, could you please add a link to the main page that looks like so:
Linking to that category. Please and thank you.
Sometime earlier this year, I overhauled the categories on the Wiki to try to untangle what had grown into a rather convoluted mess of links and categories. In the process I created some categories, moved others, and deprecated a few as well, into
something that seemed to make more sense. That page details the various primary categories, and the purpose of each after untangling them from each other as much as possible. Actually, now that I think about it, the
Playing the Game category isn't linked to the main page either, so perhaps an Admin could add that as well, per the image above.
My goal was to restore some order to a site that had grown a bit messy from it's original setup to now. However, like any site, it is constantly changing, and there may be a way to organize things that makes more sense to more people, and certainly that should be discussed. There are also parts in progress at any given time, and part of that is to make sure they are properly integrated into the structure of the site, which is something we try to ensure. On that note, if there are pages that seem to have fallen out of the category structure, or thoughts about the category structure itself, this would be an excellent place to start that discussion.
